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Liking all the small little details, feels nice to watch :)
Palette could be shrinked down easily though.
Probably the best depiction of the M o'M winged cucumber alien horrors I've seen :D
Friend - Yeah I know what you mean. That's the part about the arms I was going on about- But I was stuck between making them fluorescent, semi transparent or just oddly and offly colored in relation to the rest. Aaand then I lacked the shades and colors to define shadows further but didn't want to expand the palette anymore because I told myself that the lightest and darkest colors being so radically different in shape will just work awwwright. Which it really didn't on the one hand, and surprisingly really did on the other. But honestly this was mostly a fun project to lay some time into those little details before I'll have to cut down on my pixel productivity and uni starts up again- which'd be tomorrow, so I really didn't go by any advisable or logical technique. At least I think I usually do, hahah
Dyluck- That sketch touches my heart. Just imagine him sitting there, scribbling that down. "Precious" really is the perfect description. :y
Dyluck and CELS - I struggled so long with imagining them while reading that I thought it was oddly ingenious at the same time because I just had so big troubles wrapping my head around how these things looked till.. actually until I drew this. But I'd even go as far as to claim that the Elder Things weren't even particularly malevolent - yeah, they might have created the Shoggoths, but in the end, they brought their own downfall on them with just that, and that's really the worst thing they did in the book. Yeesh, if Shoggoths weren't basically slimy masses of mutation (that would look a ton like the shub-niggurath I already did) I'd feel compelled to draw one engulfing a subway train now, somewhat
I want to thank you all a LOT for the compliments and comments. I appreciate them greatly! Especially about this little (in relation. To giants.) guy being horrific. I couldn't hope for a better reception, basically, hahah.
looks fantastic, but lacks depth. maybe the dimensions should have been developed more before the detail
When I readed the story, I thought the description was sloppy and funny.
cmmrc you nailed it! And the palette I thinks really works on it!
Here's a supposed original sketch by Lovecraft himself.
/animalnewyork.com/2013/h-p-lovecrafts-original-sketch-of-elder-things-is-precious/
Great work and your design is fairly unique even among Lovecraftian horrors. My compliments.
One of the better designs for the Elder Things I have seen. Lovecraft, for all his fantastic abilities, really described these in a way that doesn't look very scary when you actually paint it. It's similar to the problem with the winged mounts in Lord of the Rings. They're described as great birds without feathers, IIRC, but that doesn't actually look half as scary as it sounds.
You've managed to stay true to the description, while still making them scarier than any other artist I've seen.
Ah! You made this elder thing! I love it. I'm also glad you like my take on the same creature! I give you props for keeping up the pentagonal symmetry with five wings, a lot of illustrators just give them two.